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THE anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss once wondered ruefully whether ''pictures could offer something substantial to readers who have never been there.'' The Brazilian photographer Valdir Cruz believes they can. Over the last six years he has...

October 20, 2002, Sunday

To the Editor: In ''Industry and Art: A Long Embrace'' [April 22], Vicki Goldberg notes the role of art in the development of the descriptive sciences. But as a medium for understanding the physical world, art serves as well today as it has in the...

May 6, 2001, Sunday

To the Editor: It is interesting that the photograph ''Sicilian Youth With Amphora,'' which accompanied the article ''A Man-Made Arcadia Enshrining Male Beauty'' by Vicki Goldberg [Aug. 13], depicts a youth with gynecomastia, a condition in which...

August 27, 2000, Sunday

Americans embraced photography in the mid-19th century; 150 years, and countless millions of photographs later, their ardor has not diminished. It is hard to imagine an aspect of 20th-century American life, whether personal or political, intellectual...

December 19, 1999, Sunday

The French photographer Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) believed that happiness was his birthright. He was not all wrong. He was the cosseted youngest child of an eccentric and prosperous family of inventors. Lartigue's one regret, the critic...

To the Editor: In her photography review ''It Once Was S-x, Truly Shocking; Now It's a Bore'' $(April 20$), Vicki Goldberg claimed that our society had become acclimated to images once considered shocking. She described a work of mine exhibited...

May 18, 1997, Sunday

To the Editor: Congratulations on Vicki Goldberg's ''Photos That Lie -- and Tell the Truth'' $(March 16$). The idea that a photograph conveys the truth or essence of its subjects has been promoted over the years by theorists like Roland Barthes...

April 6, 1997, Sunday

To the Editor: Vicki Goldberg's essay ''Photos That Lie -- and Tell the Truth'' $(March 16$) offered an excellent overview of the many image makers who create their art by concocting fictional works. I was particularly interested in Ms. Goldberg's...

March 30, 1997, Sunday

To the Editor: When trying to tease out the complexity of America's ethnic minority communities $(''The American Chapter of the Jewish Saga,'' Sept. 22$), Vicki Goldberg falls into her own trap by referring to the differences between the Caribbean...